If our galaxy was in the middle of the Boötes void, we wouldn’t have known there were other galaxies until the 1960s.

We know the age of humanity. We know how old Earth is. But the exact age of the universe is still a debatable topic. A new study in cosmology has opened new avenues for estimating it by using precise ...

Scientists have mapped the extent of the Vela Supercluster for the first time, and determined that it is one of the largest ...

We all know that everything kicked off when the Big Bang exploded our universe into reality, right? Well, not necessarily. A compelling new theory of the creation of our universe suggests that it may ...

An ancient immigrant: an artist's conception (not to scale) of the red giant SDSS J0915-7334, which was born near the Large Magellanic Cloud and has now journeyed to reside in the Milky Way. Pasadena, ...

Messier 92, a globular cluster that is about the same age as the universe, is shown in this image taken with the Hubble Telescope. (Gilles Chapdelaine NASA/European Space Agency Photo) How old are the ...

The Known Universe is a new video from NYC’s Hayden Planetarium. It slowly zooms out from the mountains of Tibet to the realms of the observable universe and beyond. Man, we are fucking nothing.

Two papers challenged the existence of theorized particles called sterile neutrinos that might account for mysteries like the cosmos’s dark matter. By Kenneth Chang Just how many types of neutrinos ...